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Care in Uncertain Times

Last Updated: 11/08/2024

As we collectively deal with the implications of social distancing, stay-at-home orders, and a global pandemic, questions of care and self-care have become ever more important. These books, issues, and articles investigate different ways that care can bind together individuals and communities where larger institutions or governments fail to intervene. They show how radical care is essential to enduring precarity and to laying the groundwork for new futures.

The introduction to each book is free, and books may be purchased at dukeupress.edu.


BOOK

dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss

Mimi Khúc
2024


BOOK

The Story of What Is Broken Is Whole

Aurora Levins Morales
2024


BOOK

Arc of Interference: Medical Anthropology for Worlds on Edge

João Biehl and Vincanne Adams
2023


BOOK

Genomics with Care: Minding the Double Binds of Science

Mike Fortun
2023


JOURNAL ISSUE

Radical Care

Hi‘ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart and Tamara Kneese, editors
Social Text 142, 2020


BOOK

Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals

Aurora Levins Morales
2019


JOURNAL ARTICLE

#WhenIFellInLoveWithMyself: Disrupting the Gaze and Loving Our Black Womanist Self As an Act of Political Warfare

Jameta N. Barlow
Meridians 15:1, 2016


BOOK

Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law

Dean Spade
2015


BOOK

AIDS and the Distribution of Crises

Jih-Fei Cheng, Alexandra Juhasz, and Nishant Shahani, editors
2020


BOOK

Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation

Eli Clare
2015


JOURNAL ARTICLE

Deviant Care for Deviant Futures: QTBIPoC Radical Relationalism as Mutual Aid against Carceral Care

Ren-yo Hwang
TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 6:4, 2019


JOURNAL ARTICLE

Pushback: A Pedagogy of Care

Ersula Ore
Pedagogy 17:1, 2017


BOOK

Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation

Juno Salazar Parreñas
2018


JOURNAL ARTICLE

Violence against Women: We Need a Transnational Analytic of Care

Elora Halim Chowdhury
Tikkun 29:1, 2014


BOOK

Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure

Eli Clare
2017


JOURNAL ARTICLE

Caring for Another Woman

Karen An-Hwei Lee
Meridians 7:1, 2006


BOOK

Human Rights and the Care of the Self

Alexandre Lefebvre
2018


BOOK

After War: The Weight of Life at Walter Reed  

Zoë H. Wool
2015


JOURNAL ARTICLE

Giuseppe Campuzano's Afterlife: Toward a Travesti Methodology for Critique, Care, and Radical Resistance

Malú Machuca Rose
TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 6:2, 2019


BOOK

The Occupied Clinic: Militarism and Care in Kashmir

Saiba Varma
2020


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